Château de La Valette

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Le château en bref

In Pressigny-les-Pins, in the Gâtinais loirétain near Montargis, the Château de La Valette is a nineteenth-century residence with an unusual history, linked to the story of Spanish exile. According to sources, it was built in 1864 by Marie Joseph le Bouëdec, or around 1880 according to the Inventaire. It is a square-plan château of two storeys, whose corners and window surrounds are emphasised with brick and stone quoins. A neo-Gothic chapel was erected around 1895 in a park of thirty-eight hectares. Viscount and Viscountess Albert Isle de Beaucheine occupied the property from 1893. In the mid-1930s, Spanish Republicans acquired the estate to house political exiles. It later became a Spanish college until 1986, then a Spanish cultural centre. The commune bought the property in 2002, and since 2012 the estate has hosted the intergenerational village project of the Parc de l'Île aux Pins. Its façade was painted by the artist Okuda San Miguel.